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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REALITY occurs
13 times
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1.
... reality.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
He's still
ambitious, but not
absurdly so, because he can now see and
accept actual reality.
2.
... reality and
the beauty of the forest ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
We
missed the
reality and
the
beauty of the
forest
because we were
diverted by the
ugliness of some of
its trees.
3.
... reality at
all.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
4.
... Reality deep
down within us.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We
found the
Great Reality deep down
within us.
5.
... reality intensely
practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
And let's always
remember that
meditation is in
reality intensely practical.
6.
... reality, of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
7.
... reality, or
were outright mental defectives.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not
satisfy us to be told that we could not
control our
drinking
just because we were
maladjusted to
life, that we were in
full flight from
reality, or were
outright mental defectives.
8.
... reality out
of bottles.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such
thoughts break
in, we might
recall, a
little ruefully, how much
store we used to
set by
imagination as it
tried
to
create reality out of
bottles.
9.
... reality that
was the beginning of my ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
In
reality that was the
beginning of my
last debauch.
10.
... reality, the
nourishment of His strength, and ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all
need the
light of
God's
reality, the
nourishment of His
strength, and the
atmosphere of His
grace.
11.
... Reality --
their loving and All Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had
visioned the
Great Reality -- their
loving and All
Powerful Creator.
12.
... reality we
have already passed up many ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just
procrastinate,
telling ourselves the
time is
not
yet, when in
reality we
have already
passed up many a
fine chance to
right a
serious wrong.
13.
... reality which
is God's kingdom.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
Now and then we may be
granted a
glimpse of that
ultimate
reality which is
God's
kingdom.
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